MEET THE SPEAKERS

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Many of us have heard Rumi’s quotes, but how many of us are familiar with his tradition? 

Like many world religions, the mystical tradition within Islam is often a well-kept secret.

But Omid Safi is doing what he can to change that! 

Omid is a teacher in the Islamic tradition of Radical Love. He serves as a professor at Duke University specializing in Islamic spirituality and contemporary thought. A leading Muslim public intellectual, Omid is committed to the intersection of spirituality and social justice. His passion for teaching has been recognized through the ten times that he has been nominated for professor of the year awards!

Join Omid to learn:

• The 3 things missing from our understanding of “religion”
• The role sacred eroticism plays in the Path of Love
• The true meaning of Rumi’s field
• Why seeing God as both Lover and Beloved will turn your spirituality on its head
• The two wings needed for justice to soar–and why we need to speak out of “love as open as the sky”
• The moving story that reveals the heart of the Sufi tradition

Omid Safi has published extensively on the foundational sources of Islam and Sufism. His Memories of Muhammad is a biography of the Prophet Muhammad. His most recent book is Radical Love: Teachings from the Islamic Mystical Tradition (published by Yale).  

Omid is also deeply committed to liberationist prophetic traditions in the legacy of Martin Luther King, Rabbi Heschel, and Malcolm X. He has been invited by the family of Dr. King to speak at Ebenezer Church on the relevance of Dr. King for today’s America, and has delivered the Martin Luther King keynote in the annual national MLK service.

Omid often appears as an expert on Islam in the New York Times, Newsweek, Washington Post, PBS, NPR, NBC, BBC, CNN and other outlets. He has a podcast called “Sufi Heart” at Be Here Now. His Illuminated Tours have taken more than a 1,000 friends from over twenty countries to Turkey and Morocco since 2002, and he is now offering Illuminated Courses for online offerings on spiritual traditions open to seekers of all backgrounds.

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People of all traditions have long relished the spiritual classic, The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence. A Carmelite lay brother who walked with a limp, Brother Lawrence saw beyond the binaries of who’s in and who’s out, male vs. female, sinners vs. saints.

Thanks to the translation of Carmen Acevedo Butcher, Brother Lawrence’s writings are more accessible than ever before. Join us to learn:

• The surprising method for making contemplation available to everyone
• How Brother Lawrence’s chronic pain inspired his spirituality
• Brother Lawrence’s favorite image of God
• How to get in the wake of a sage or a saint
• What makes Brother Lawrence distinctly Carmelite
• Carmen’s translation choices that helped recover the sense of Mystery found in the original text
• PLUS 2 questions Carmen has never answered on air before!

Dr. Carmen Acevedo Butcher is an award-winning translator, teacher, poet, and workshop leader. She has been interviewed on the BBC’s Compass, NPR’s Morning Edition and Dante’s Old South, Contemplify, Abbey of the Arts, Things Not Seen, Spirituality & Practice’s Off the Page, Contemplative Outreach International’s Opening Minds, Opening Hearts, (Re)Thinking Faith, Messy Jesus Business, Encountering Silence, and many others. 

Her translation of Brother Lawrence’s Practice of the Presence was named on the Best Books of 2022 List by Spirituality & Practice, and her Cloud of Unknowing translation received a 46th Georgia Author of the Year Award. Her works include Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader, A Little Daily Wisdom: Christian Women Mystics, and Man of Blessing: A Life of St. Benedict. 

Carmen holds degrees in Medieval Studies from the University of Georgia, was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, and teaches in the College Writing Programs at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in the Bay Area, and is working on a chapbook of poetry. 

Visit her website at carmenbutcher.com.

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What does it mean to say “yes” to Mystery?

Julia Walsh, a Franciscan sister, has dedicated her life to that question.

How do we embrace the messiness of life? What does it mean to bow to the holy ground of paradox?

Join us for a rich conversation where you’ll learn:

• How embracing brokenness always leads to a life of service
• Why it is impossible to become fully ourselves without listening to our bodies
• Why you need self-awareness when choosing your spiritual practice
• What intimacy looks like for a celibate sister
• How your own struggles can become a gift for others
  
  

Sister Julia Walsh is a Franciscan Sister of Perpetual Adoration and part of her congregation’s formation team, serving women who are discerning their religious vocation. Along with another Franciscan Sister, she co-founded The Fireplace, an intentional community and house of hospitality on Chicago’s southside that offers spiritual support to artists and activists. She has a MA in Pastoral Studies from Catholic Theological Union and is a certified spiritual director and secondary teacher. 

As a creative writer, podcaster, educator, retreat presenter and speaker, Julia is passionate about exploring the intersection of creativity, spirituality, activism and community life. A regularly published spiritual writer, Sister Julia’s work can be found in publications such as America, Living Faith Catholic Devotional, Global Sisters Report and St. Anthony Messenger and Living City. She enjoys sharing musings on Twitter and Instagram as @JuliaFSPA. Her spiritual memoir, FOR LOVE OF THE BROKEN BODY (Monkfish), is forthcoming in April 2024. 

Learn more about her work at srjuliawalsh.wordpress.com.

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Delve into the vessel you dwell within! In this guided practice, you’ll join mindful movement expert Nanci Lee Patch in exploring your body’s wisdom. 

Join us for this live, on-screen practice to learn how to:

• Access deeper layers where memories and personality are stored–and see what they have to share with you
• Explore cellular breathing
• Sense energy moving through your body
• Shift into flow
• Come home to yourself.

Don’t miss this opportunity to dwell more deeply in your body.

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What does it mean to be a spiritual explorer?

From a young age, Paul Swanson wanted to be a vagabond.

As a six year old, he wanted to be a “hobo artist” - traveling beyond home, exploring the wide world while asking life’s big questions.

Unexpectedly, years later, he is now passing his 16th year in New Mexico. His vagabond tendencies surprised him with a wife, two “feral but beloved children,” and a role at the Center for Action and Contemplation.

How do we weather life’s surprises? Why is that an essential part of the contemplative path?

Join us for a rich conversation where you’ll learn:

• How family life can serve as your ground for transformation
• The #1 underrated spiritual discipline
• Which ancient mystic Paul hopes makes a comeback in a big way
• The top lesson Paul has learned from working alongside Richard Rohr, James Finley, and Tessa Bielecki
• What spiritual growth actually looks like (it’s probably different than you would expect!)
• Contemplation’s forgotten “bedfellow” and why it is so powerful!

And lastly, learn the one question Paul uses to discern where he is being lead.

Paul Swanson runs the contemplative basecamp Contemplify which runs a podcast, shares a monthly NonRerequired Reading List, and weekly practices. He is a jackleg Mennonite and novice in the new monastic Community of the Incarnation. With his wife, Laura, they have two feral, but beloved, children. He is on staff at the Center for Action and Contemplation. Learn more about Paul’s work kindling the examined life for contemplatives in the world at contemplify.com.

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As we settle into contemplative silence, we come face to face with Mystery. Liminality. The frailty of our own existence. 

What does it mean to face that uncertainty with courage–and, perhaps, a dash of mischief?

Join us for a conversation exploring the heights and depths of reality with the one and only Ilia Delio. Ilia is a scientist, theologian, and Franciscan sister who focuses on ways that evolution, quantum physics, and neuroscience intersect with theology.

Along with co-hosts Kelly Deutsch and Amy Marie, you will learn:

• How the Church has diverted us from “withinness” - and how mysticism offers a solution
• Why “relationality” is the key to our flourishing
• The 3 things we need on our journey from head to heart to wholeness
• Why religion must take science seriously if it’s going to continue to exist
• The deep insight Jesus offers us when he talks about partying and feasting!
• The secret to healing trauma, hidden in the Gospel miracle stories
• What gives Ilia hope

And, gain a sneak peek into Ilia’s backstory: from pharmacology school to the Carmelites, her prankster years in the Franciscan novitiate, driving a beat up car into the Bronx to study theology, to her years at a Georgetown thinktank where she got to rifle through the personal papers of Tielhard de Chardin.

This is one session you won’t want to miss!

Ilia Delio is a Franciscan Sister of Washington, DC and American theologian specializing in the area of science and religion, with interests in evolution, physics, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence and the import of these for theology.

She has a great love for the work of Teilhard de Chardin, and the way the Franciscan charism informs eco-spirituality today.

Ilia currently holds the Josephine C. Connelly Endowed Chair in Theology at Villanova University, and is the author of seventeen books including Care for Creation (coauthored with Keith Warner and Pamela Woods) which won two Catholic Press Book Awards in 2009, first place for social concerns and second place in spirituality. Her book The Emergent Christ won a third place Catholic Press Book Award in 2011 for the area of Science and Religion. Her recent books include The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God, Evolution and the Power of Love, which received the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a third place Catholic Press Association Award for Faith and Science.

Visit her center's website at christogenesis.org.

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What would it mean to have a mystical Advent?

How have other mystics traversed this season?

Beloved contemplative teacher Carl McColman explores these questions and more in a never-before-seen interview!

Join him for a joy-filled session to learn:

• Why this season is a missed opportunity for spiritual growth 
• Carls’ favorite Advent mystic who no one has heard of!
• What this forgotten mystic teaches us about the “secret” of Advent
• Why everyone needs the divine Mother
• The invitation during Advent to let baby Jesus have a nap!
• How we are each called to give birth to divine love at Christmas 

And lastly, the importance of the sometimes forgotten word of the Advent season: Joy.

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Carl McColman a spiritual director, retreat leader, and internationally known speaker and teacher on mystical spirituality and contemplative living. He is the author of many books, including The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism, Eternal Heart: The Mystical Path to a Joyful Life, and Unteachable Lessons: Why Wisdom Can’t Be Taught and Why That’s Okay. He is one of the co-hosts of the Encountering Silence podcast, and blogs regularly at Patheos, Medium, and his own website, www.anamchara.com.

Carl’s approach to contemplation and mysticism is inclusive and expansive; he is dedicated to exploring the common ground between faith traditions, with a particular interest in the connecting points between Christian, Buddhist and Pagan wisdom. Carl lives with his wife, artist Fran McColman, in Clarkston, Georgia, near Atlanta.

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Resonating Prayer is a movement into praying for one another from a whole-body awakened knowing state of consciousness, which looks quite different than traditional prayer.

Resonating Prayer is a practice of learning to pray from a deeper, more integrated consciousness in our embodied being. We’re not praying to God out there, but rather from our awakened, divine consciousness with God’s presence and one another in our shared field of loving connection.

As this is usually a new experience for most people, it can take a little getting used to—with practice, experimentation, and plenty of grace.

When we pray for one another in this way, we are welcome to silently engage in the flow of love and healing from our hearts toward one another. As we are ready and feel comfortable, we can begin to grow in “speaking forth,” giving voice to the impressions and arisings for each other as we learn how to sense from this state of emergent awareness.

These can arise in our head as images, pictures, words, smells, and more. We can experience the energy of love and bliss in our hearts, sometimes also felt in our arms and hands. From our womb we might sense intuitions or deep knowing. Our feet connect us to the energy of material reality, moving us into a somatic, felt sense of physical sensations.
We may also see and hear from our spiritual guides, which we might experience as God’s motherly/fatherly presence, Jesus, Mary, and others.

This is being in spirit, participating in awakened mystical consciousness much like the early church did.

This session will include both a conversation and a time for practicing and learning, offering to one another humbly and within loving space for the purpose of “comforting, encouraging, and strengthening” (1 Cor. 14:3).

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LUKE HEALY is the co-founder of Integral Christian Network, an endeavor to help further the loving evolution of Christianity and the world. He is passionate about pioneering innovation in forms of spiritual community, in gathering like-minded and like-hearted pilgrims on the spiritual journey, and making mystical experience of God accessible in individual and collective practice.

You can learn more about his work at: integralchristiannetwork.org

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Bob Holmes, known to millions on social media as the “Contemplative Monk,” is a model of living in liminal spaces.

Bob started Contemplative Monk almost 10 years ago as a way to recover ancient wisdom and share it with the world. It is a Facebook community, website and now Substack after the main Facebook page was hacked last year when it had nearly 1 million followers.  

Bob himself is a mutli-faceted human being. He is a writer, poet, musician, and spiritual adventurer. His life has taken him through the Jesus movement, the Baptist church, the Episcopal, charismatic, Benedictine, Franciscan, and Buddhist traditions.

With his Native American heritage and North Carolina upbringing, it is no exaggeration to say that Bob’s soul is as old as the mountains.

In recent years, Bob has gone through the loss of his wife, Elizabeth, his son, Michael, and his own journey with two types of cancer. In this session, we’ll explore why loss and grief are such powerful teachers, and how we can live lives of joy even in the midst of pain.

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Millions of people have found inspiration in the gifts of Ignatius of Loyola for the past 500 years.

What is so powerful about his teachings? Why do people flock to attend the 30-day silent retreat he designed all those years ago? And how might he guide us in our quest for justice today?

These are questions that Patrick Saint-Jean is eager to explore.

Join this Haitian Jesuit to learn:

• The hallmark of Ignatian Spirituality
• The 4 key themes of the Spiritual Exercises–and why we need them today!
• How Ignatian meditation compares to mindfulness
• Why we must dare to imagine something new if we want change
• Ignatius’s tender response to human suffering–and how we might follow his model in our efforts for social justice 
• Why we need detachment to overcome America’s “original sin” of racism

Born in Haiti and raised in France, Dr. Patrick Saint-Jean calls modern seekers to dare to imagine something different. 

A practicing psychotherapist, Dr. Saint-Jean received his undergraduate degree at the Universite Victor Segalen de Bordeaux in France and received his graduate degree in Psychoanalysis from the Parisian Ecole Lacanienne de Psychanalyse in Paris. He completed his PsyD from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. For the past 3 years, he has taught at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Today he is continuing his education in Berkeley, California.

Dr. Saint-Jean has published several books, including The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice: A Month of Meditations with Ignatius of Loyola, and his latest, The Spirituality of Transformation, Joy, and Justice: The Ignatian Way for Everyone.

In his free time, Dr. Saint-Jean enjoys talking with friends and family, writing on social justice issues and watching sports among many other things.

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What does it look like to be a contemplative in our workaday lives?

While the majority of us are not called to be monks, we are often called into 9-5 jobs. From bank managers to sandwich specialists at Jimmy John’s, nearly all of us have experience in working for an organization.

What does the contemplative life have to do with this? How does contemplation move into action in nitty gritty staff meetings and finishing your report by end of day?

Join the Contemplative Leadership expert Margaret Benefiel to explore these questions and more, including:

• How emotional maturity is necessarily tied to spiritual maturity
• The two roadblocks most of us will experience in contemplative practice
• How Margaret’s Quaker background informs how she runs meetings
• 3 concrete practices she teaches teams that want to be emotionally intelligent 
• Why mission-driven organizations tend to struggle more with contemplative leadership

Margaret Benefiel is the Executive Director of the Shalem Institute and has been a long time organizational consultant for Contemplative Leadership. She has served as Chair of the Academy of Management's Management, Spirituality, and Religion Group, and has held various leadership roles in Spiritual Directors International.  Over 2,000 executives, managers, and leaders have participated in her seminars and courses. 

She has authored or co-edited 7 books, including Soul Food, Crisis Leadership, The Soul of Higher Education, The Soul of Supervision, The Soul of a Leader, Soul at Work, and Hidden in Plain Sight. She lives with her husband in Washington, D.C. and enjoys hiking, cycling, reading novels, and scuba diving in her free time.

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What’s getting in between you and God? Paul Bane has described distracting thoughts as unwelcome guests banging at the door -- loudly! What if you could quiet the mind to make space for spiritual union?

In this guided practice, Paul will use one sacred word as the building block for a mindful relationship with God.

Join us for this live, on-screen practice to learn how to:

• Overcome feelings of restlessness in centering prayer
• Use meditation techniques to support a contemplative way of life
• Learn to be in the present moment through mindfulness
• Recognize God’s presence even during stressful times

Don’t miss this opportunity to practice the kind of centering that’s helpful for everyday contemplation.

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Paul Bane is the founder of Mindful Christianity, an online community helping people discover the lost contemplative and meditative tradition of practicing the presence of Jesus in our daily lives. Founded in 2015, Mindful Christianity reaches millions of people a week, and its message has connected with faith leaders throughout Christianity as well as mental health professionals and counseling organizations.

Paul co-authored with Matt Litton In the Presence of Jesus: A 40-day Devotional Guide to the Intimacy with God You've Always Wanted. Paul is the retired Pastor Emeritus of New Hope Community Church in Brentwood, Tennessee. He and his wife, Cathy, have two children and six teenage granddaughters.

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Carmelites are the deep divers of the interior life. When you’re ready to go real deep, or when your longings for divine intimacy are becoming painfully strong–Carmel is where you want to go.

As you may know, two of the best known Christian mystics were Carmelites–namely, Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross. Their writings have inspired millions of other contemplatives and mystics over the centuries, and guide us in those interior spaces where the road map ends.

In this session, the Carmelite friar Matthew Blake will guide us through those wild interior spaces. These are the places where language ends and unknowing begins! 

Join us to learn:

• The real goal of the contemplative life
• How the spaciousness of Carmelite spirituality helps us become more fully ourselves
• How to pursue divine union–and 3 things to keep in mind
• The one major obstacle you’ll face (and how to overcome it)
• The secret to incorporating silence and solitude into your busy life
• The role of longing in the path to union
• The real meaning of the dark night–and why John says it’s always good news

For anyone with longings for union–this is one session you won’t want to miss.

Father Matthew Blake has been a member of the Carmelite Order since 1981. Born in Ireland, he has worked in the UK since 1989. A popular retreat director, spiritual director, and speaker, Matthew is passionate about Carmelite Spirituality and making its treasures better known.

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What does a friar from 800 years ago have to say to us today?

It turns out a whole lot and his message to us is urgent. St. Francis of Assisi was more than just the “birdbath saint.” Join author, translator, and Franciscan scholar Jon M. Sweeney as we explore:

• What Francis teaches us about fear and courageous vulnerability
• The 3 hallmarks of Franciscan spirituality–and how they grew out of Francis’ early life
• Why Jon cheered out loud when Pope Francis chose his name
• The drastic change in Francis’s life when he “decided to be different”–and how we can dare to be different, too!
• The urgency of Francis’ messages about the environment, gentleness, and simplicity

JON M. SWEENEY is an independent scholar and an award-winning writer. He is a biographer of St. Francis of Assisi and translator of his writings, and his books on Franciscan subjects have sold more than two hundred thousand copies. Jon is the author of more than forty books, including The Pope Who Quit, which was optioned by HBO. He edits the magazine Living City, and is religion editor/associate publisher of Monkfish Publishing in Rhinebeck, NY. He’s appeared on CBS Saturday Morning and numerous other programs, and writes regularly for America magazine in the US, and The Tablet in the UK. Jon is married to Rabbi Michal Woll; their interfaith marriage has been profiled in national media. He's the father of four, and lives in Milwaukee.

You can find him wherever you buy your books, and also just by a simple Google search.

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What might the institutional church look like if it were more contemplative?

Stuart Higginbothom has spent the past 16 years exploring that exact question.

The fun part is - it’s different than you might expect!

Join us to learn:

• Why it’s critical to step away from a “program-based” congregational model–and what the alternative looks like
• The surprising definition of “contemplation” that will turn your understanding on its head!
• Why a minister’s understanding of their role must change if the church is to be contemplative 
• Why it’s not a good idea to make everyone practice a 20 minute silent sit together
• The one piece of advice from Tilden Edwards that now guides Stuart’s life
• 3 practical steps church leaders can take to help their community become more contemplative
• Stuart’s unconventional daily practices that serve as the “trellis” of his spiritual life 
• The one question spiritual leaders need to ask themselves if they want to create a more contemplative community

Stuart Higginbotham, an Episcopal priest, serves as rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Georgia. He also serves as Assistant Professor in the Practice of Spiritual Formation and Ministry at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. He did his initial theological studies (MDiv) at Columbia Theological Seminary and completed his DMin at the School of Theology at the University of the South. He is the author of The Heart of a Calling: The Practice of Christian Mindfulness in Congregational Ministry and is co-editor of Contemplation and Community: A Gathering of Fresh Voices for a Living Tradition. He is also the author of a forthcoming collection of poetry called Bones of Light.

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What does it mean to be a contemplative?

Many of us reach this path through crisis or curiosity, but the one thing we all have in common is a longing for depth. For something so much more.

How do we prepare for this path? How did we lose it in the first place? And why is it crucial to our survival?

Join Benedictine monk Laurence Freeman to learn:

• The critical stage we each must go through to find wisdom
• How meditation helps us embrace the world as it is
• 3 steps to recovering contemplative consciousness in ourselves
• A surprising definition of prayer that will upend everything you thought you knew
• The 3 effects of prayer according to Origen
• How to read Jesus’s mystical teachings in the Gospels

–and so much more!

Of Irish and English parentage, Laurence Freeman was educated by the Benedictines and studied English Literature atOxford University. Before entering monastic life, he worked with the United Nations in New York, in Banking and Journalism. He is Director of The World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM) an inclusive contemplative community. He is a Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Italy.

Laurence now resides at Bonnevaux, the WCCM international home in France, and a center for peace where meditation is practiced and taught as a way to personal and social transformation.  Bonnevaux draws on a rich tradition of contemplative wisdom which our times demand.

Father Laurence is a prolific author. His books including: Light Within, The Selfless Self, Your Daily Practice, Jesus: The Teacher Within, First Sight: The Experience of Faith, Web of Silence, and Good Work: Meditation for Personal and Organizational Transformation.

He has collaborated with the Dalai Lama on many dialogues and the groundbreaking book The Good Heart.  In addition to his work for the contemplative renewal of Christianity he leads dialogues and peace initiatives, seeing meditation as opening the common ground of all humanity. He was awarded the Order of Canada in recognition of his work for interfaith dialogue and the promotion of world peace. His Daily Wisdom, letter and other regular teachings online and his retreats and conferences are sources of inspiration for many worldwide.

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We all want spiritual enlightenment but why ignore the body? Mike Smoolca’s experiential approach to contemplation will highlight a very real, felt sense of the divine that is grounded in the body.

Inspired by scripture -- "In whom we live and move and have our Being" (Acts 17:28) -- Smoolca’s practice doesn’t bypass the body, but rather turns it into a spiritual ally!

Join us for this live, on-screen practice to learn how to:

• Use a self-guided meditation and breathwork process
• Clear “space” for yourself in your body to witness emotions
• Identify a healing, caring presence
• Tune into deeper intuition and knowing

Don’t miss this opportunity to enrich your contemplative life from the inside out!

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Mike Smoolca is a contemplative group and workshop facilitator and a dedicated teacher and student of contemplative practice and wisdom spirituality. He is a Contemplative Outreach Commissioned presenter of Centering Prayer, Lectio Divina and Welcoming Prayer and coordinator for the Christian Contemplative Experience at Holy Family, Contemplative Outreach of CT, and the Northern CT Chapter of the International Thomas Merton Society. Mike is a spiritual director and supervisor as well as an International BioSpiritual Focusing companion and teacher.

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The contemplative world is missing something critical, according to Lisa Colon Delay.

While Jesus was a poor, marginalized man with a tenderness for the outcast, most of the leading voices in spirituality today come from people of privilege.

How does this impact our spiritual growth? What are we missing?

Join author Lisa Colon Delay for a conversation about decentering whiteness, trauma-informed spiritual practice, embodied healing, and what happens when we remember that Christianity started as an Eastern religion–all while we explore our wild inner landscapes.

Lisa Colón DeLay is a Puerto Rican author of the spiritual formation book entitled The Wild Land Within. She is a teacher, spiritual companion, and podcast host of a popular show called Spark My Muse. Her work focuses on enriching the invaluable spaces within each person and the spaces and ways that connect us—for healing within relationships, families, communities, and in the world at large.

Learn more at lisadelay.com.

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The Enneagram has exploded in popularity in the last decade, helping millions recognize the framework they were given–and grow in empathy for how each of us see the world differently.

Suzanne Stabile, hailed as the “godmother of the Enneagram,” wants to take you further.

For each of us not only has a dominant number, but a dominant “Center of Intelligence.” We feel most comfortable either in our thinking center, our feeling center, or our doing center.

But did you know that each of us has a repressed center as well?

And that center out of balance can become a major blind spot.

In this exclusive interview, Suzanne will reveal specific spiritual practices designed to strengthen and balance each number’s repressed center.

Whether you need a little help taking action or not hiding from your feelings, Suzanne is here to show us that we cannot be whole until we find balance within ourselves.

As an internationally recognized Enneagram Master, Suzanne has conducted over 500 Enneagram workshops over the past 30 years. The "Enneagram Godmother" co-authored The Road Back to You with Ian Cron, and she is the author of The Path Between Us and The Journey Toward Wholeness and host of the popular podcast, The Enneagram Journey. Suzanne is the co-founder of Life in the Trinity Ministry with her husband Rev. Joseph Stabile. You can find her teaching schedule, books, recorded material, and other resources at lifeinthetrinityministry.com.